Pyramid-type hatch tent



Jan. 9, 1940. T. H} M GEORGE PYRAMID TYPE HATCH TENT Filed Augv 10, L93677100: as fi/lfac Ge'Orye INL'EXTOR.

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Patented Jan. 9, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PYRAMID- TYPE HATCHTENT Application August 10, 1936, Serial No. 95,113

6 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in pyramid-type hatch tents ofthat class conventionally employed as temporary coverings for openhatchways of vessels in port when loading operations are not inprogress. The present improvements, more particularly, are directed toan advanced form of apical fitting for a hatch cover of this character,having as objects the provision of inexpensive tent-suspending deviceswhich in use act to increase the durability of the tent, strengthen thesame, and facilitate the positioning of the cover over the hatch, eachof which ends together with further advantages of the invention willappear in the course of the following description and claims.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation, andcombination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a top plan view representing, somewhat diagrammatically, ahatch tent constructed according to the present invention with a portionof the same broken away to obtain a fullline showing of the protectedhatch.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail vertical section taken on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1 to illustrate the particular improvements in an apical fittingembodied in the present invention; and

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Indicated by the numeral 5 in the drawing is a pyramid-type tent of thecharacter hereinabove referred to which is applied over the hatch 6leading to the vessels hold during intervals of time when loadingoperations are temporarily suspended whereby to protect previouslyloaded cargo against adverse weather conditions. As reinforcing membersfor this class of tent, rope guys are used which, in conventionalpractice, are positioned on the ridge lines between the triangular tentsections and medially of each of these sections, these guy lines ingeneral usage lying exteriorly of the fabric which composes the tent toallow the upper ends to be attached to an elevating line for raising thetent. This exterior location of the guy ropes has, by reason of exposureto the weather, required frequent replacement.

According to the present invention I apply the guy ropes interiorly ofthe tent and to accom modate an attachment of the same to the elevatingline provide an opening in the peak of the tent through whichinterconnection as between posed end of the pintle is an eye-bolt I3 theshank of which extends through and makes swivel connection in a yoke I4,said yoke being attached to the elevating line denoted by l5.

An indicated, the spokes I2 desirably comprise two members extendingdiametrically of the ring at right angles to one another and receivedover each of the four separated ring sections are a pair of the eightrope guys, designated by I6, the spokes acting to position theterminally looped portions l6 of the guys against fouling. In formingthe tent, the marginal edges of the peak opening are brought upwardlyand wound about the shank of the pintle with cord I1, a protectivecovering being provided which consists in a downwardly flaring sheath l8of leather or other suitable material having its narrow end fitting theshank of the pintle above the cord-wound tent margins and similarlybound with cord 20.

The invention is believed clear from the foregoing description takenwith the drawing. In placing the tent over the hatch, short lengths ofrope such as 2| which extend from the tent edges are secured to the deckrings of the vessel, following which the peak of the tent is elevatedthrough the instrumentality of the apical fitting.

It is my intention that no limitations be implied other than as mayappear in the course of the defined structure set forth in the appendedclaims.

What I claim, is:

1. In combination with a hatch tent of the pyramid type described havingguys lying interiorly of the fabric and extending radially from the peakof the tent for re-inforcing the same, said tent being formed with .apeak opening, an apical fitting allowing interconnection as between theinner ends of the respective guys and the elevating line by which thepeak of the tent is raised, said fitting comprising a swiveled eyeboltadapted to be attached to the elevating line, a vertical pintleextending through the peak opening of the tent and connected at itsupper end to the eye-bolt, and guy-attaching means comprising a ringmember suspended from the lower end of the pintle to lie in a horizontalplane within the tent, the interconnection as between said pintle andthe ring member comprising an eye formed on the lower end of the pintleand diametrically extending spokes integral with the ring member passingthrough said pintle eye, said spokes lying at right angles to oneanother to provide separated guy-engaging fellies about the perimeter ofthe ring member.

2. The combination as defined in claim 1 and means consisting in adownwardly flared protective sheath carried by the exposed portion ofthe pintle shank to overlie the opening through which the pintle passes.

3. An apical tent fitting for attaching interiorly disposed re-inforcingguy lines in a hatch tent of the pyramid type described to the elevatingline by means of which the peak of the tent is raised comprising apintle adapted to extend through a vertical opening in the peak of thetent, swivel means connected to the upper exposed end of the pintle forattaching the pintle to the elevating line, and a ring member formedwith a plurality of separated fellies to which the guy lines are adaptedto be attached suspended to lie horizontally within the tent from thelower end of the pintle.

4. An apical tent fitting for attaching interiorly disposed re-inforcingguy lines of a pyramidtype hatch tent to the elevating line by means ofwhich the peak of the tent is raised comprising a pintle adapted toextend through a ver tical opening in the peak of the tent, swivel meansconnected to the upper exposed end of the pintle for attaching thepintle to the elevating line, and means lying within the tent andsuspended from the lower end of the pintle for attaching the guy lines.

5. In an apical tent fitting allowing attachment of interiorly disposedre-inforcing guy lines of a pyramid-type hatch tent to the elevatingline by which the peak of the tent is raised, a pintle adapted to extendthrough a vertical opening in the peak of the tent to allowinterconnection between the upper exposed end of the same and theelevating line, and means having hinge connection with the lower end ofthe pintle and supported thereby within the tent to accommodateattachment of the guy lines.

6. An apical fitting for a pyramid-type hatch tent of the characteremploying, as a frame-work for the tent, interior reinforcing ropesrunning to the peak of the tent, the fitting having means disposedwithin the tent permitting attachment of the upper ends of the ropesthereto and providing a vertical pintle operative to extend through anopening in the peak of the tent for attachment of an elevating line tothe exposed end of the pintle.

THOMAS H. MACGEORGE.

